Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Exopolitics, a tipical pseudoscience.

Exopolitics is a fancy term for "extraterrestrial
politics" (the Greek prefix "exo-"
means "outside" or "external - compare exoplanet).

As no extraterrestrial life has been
discovered yet, let alone extraterrestrial life capable of politics, this is
the domain of cranks and nutjobs some
really weird people. It's the result of what happens when beliefs progress
beyond the simple fascination with UFOs ("there's
no other explanation for UFOs, therefore they must be alien spacecraft")
well into true believer territory ("of course we know that
there are multiple alien races!").

The term has been used to denote two slightly different
things - the alleged dealings of aliens with Earth politicians (e.g. Michael Salla's claim that Eisenhower met
aliens) and the science fiction-like tales of alien wars and
alliances. If this sounds vaguely familiar, both meanings form a lot of the
plot of the X-Files...